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HORSE COLLAR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, OF AUBURh ONTARIO, CANADA.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,068, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed July 13, 1888. Serial No. 279,853. (No model.)

To all? whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, at present residing in Auburn, in the county of Huron, Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in horse-collars, and has for its object to provide a rim which will compel the pad to essentially retain its shape under all conditions until rendered worthless by constant use; and the object of the inventionis also to provide a collar of simple, economical, and durable construction, wherein the use of hames may be dispensed with; and the further object of the invention is to provide a collar wherein the rim may be substituted for the hames.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved collar, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line at m of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the invention the rim A, to which the pad B is attached, consists of two metal sections, A and A bent to proper shape, hinged together at their upper ends, and provided with a locking device at the bottom. Each side A and A of the rim is essentially circular in cross-section, and each of said sides A and A are respectively built up of two semicircular sections, a and a, adapted to constitute, essentially, a circle when brought together. One side section, a, is concaved upon the inner face and filled in with a strip of wood, I), steamed or otherwise manipulated to conform to the contour of the metal, and the said wood filling is therefore semi-spherical in cross-section, as best shown in Fig. 2. The inner section, a, is preferably of solid metal.

Prior to the several. side sections being united to complete each side of the rim a length of leather, 1), is made to intervene the contiguous faces of the filling and the outer metal section, and the said leather is clamped and firmly held in position by a series of rivets, 6 passing through the opposing metal and wood sections, as best shown in Fig. 2. If found desirable, other equivalent fastening devices may be substituted. The length of leather or leather strip 5 is wider than the diameter of the sides of the rim and is made to project outward and constitute one side of .the pad, as illustrated at E in Fig. 2, the padjacket proper, 6, being sewed or otherwise secured to the leather strip 6' at the bend adjacent to the rim and to the extremity of the stri 3.

11 1 order to conceal the junction of the pad-jacket with the strip 1), an apron, E, is provided, ordinarily consisting of finished leather attached to the outer face of the strip 1), close to the rim, and to the pad-jacket e at the rear of the outer connection, as best shown in Fig. 2.

A separate pad is provided for each side of the rim, and the lower extremities of the said sides of the rim are locked by a pin, f, integral with one side, entering a proper recess in the opposite side, and a hasp, F, secured to the outer face of one rim, entering a staple, F, attached to the outer side of the other rim at the bottom, as illustrated in Fig. 1; but other locking devices may be substituted without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Instead of a wood filling other equivalent material may be substituted, and in lieu of leather any other material may be used best adapted to the construction of a collar.

Each of the rim sides or sections are provided with a line ring, H, and a ring, H, adapted for the reception of the breast-strap, as in this construction of collar hames are dispensed with, the draft being sustained by the rim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination, with the hinged metal rim of a horse-collar, consisting of metal sections united to form a circle and a rigid core of lighter material filling one section, of a strip of flexible material clamped between the said core and metal section, and a pad secured to the said flexible strip, whereby the strip constitutes an integral portion of the held between the said sections,substantially pad, substa-ntiallyas shown and described.

rim of a horse-collar, consisting of n'ictal sections united to form, essentially, acircle, and a core of lighter material filling one section,

of a strip of flexible material clamped bei tween the said core and the contiguous face as described. 2. The combination, with the hinged metal Q 4:. In a horse-collar, the combination of a metal rim consisting of two longitudinal sections secured together, the pad-jacket section I), of leather or equivalent flexible material, having one edge secured between the said sections and the pad-jacket section a secured to the free end of the section b and to the bend of the said section adjacent to the rinnsuhstantiz'i'lly as shown and described.

ALEXANDER MC'KEX 21 E.

J. F. ACKER, .112, L. SEDGW'ILK. 

